Ralph Hasson is lead independent director and chair of the nominating and governance committee for Kerbey Lane Café. He also serves on the board of directors of the Texas TriCities Chapter of NACD and served as the founding chair of the chapter’s Austin advisory board. He is NACD Directorship Certified®, holds NACD Fellowship®, and holds the NACD CERT Certificate in Cyber-Risk Oversight.

Hasson previously served as president of risk transfer solutions for Cybernance Corp. Cybernance offered leading solutions for cyber-risk governance. He led the effort to develop an integrated offering, combining a cyber-risk transfer solution with the Cybernance platform.

Hasson helped to build Chorda, the first enterprise conflict management consulting firm, into a nationally recognized organization. Chorda developed enterprise systems for collaboration and conflict management for Halliburton, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Coors, Coca-Cola Enterprises, and GE. Several of those systems became national models.

He also launched the policy office for the University of Texas (UT) System Administration, which supports the fourteen institutions within the UT system. The policy office was benchmarked by Starbucks and recognized as a best-practice model by leading compliance experts.

His new ideas in corporate governance and ethics oversight have been cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal after appearing in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Directors Monthly. He is the coauthor of Controlling the Costs of Conflict: How to Design a System for Your Organization (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998).

He graduated with his bachelor of arts and juris doctor from University of Texas at Austin and his master of public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.